Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation
Information on the purpose of your organization
The Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC) is Japan?s major networking NGO promoting international cooperation founded in 1987 with Japanese NGOs as its full members. The goal of JANIC is to achieve a peaceful and just global society where people are liberated from hunger, poverty, and violation of human rights.
Information on your programmes and activities in areas relevant to the subject of the Summit and in which country or counties they are carried out.
[Policy recommendations and research activities to change the society]
Amid the discussions on development challenges from 2015 onwards (i.e. post-MDGs discussion) at various levels regarding the MDGs whose target year is set to 2015, JANIC boosted post-MDGs discussion in Japan by participating in the 5th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) and in UN General Assembly's Special Event towards achieving the MDGs and hosting seminars and symposiums aimed for NGOs in Japan. Also, we made a booklet and guide and held seminars to facilitate the understanding and practice of Istanbul Principles to improve the development effect of NGOs.
Information on activities at the national or international levels
We serve as Secretariat or became a member of NGO-Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regular Consultation Meeting and NGO-JICA Consultation Meeting, which have been set up as forums for the government and NGOs to discuss such global challenges and Japan?s ODAs and contributed to liven up the discussion. Especially in ?Taskforce for medium-term planning on the collaboration between NGOs and ODAs? set up under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regular Consultation Meeting?, we engage in discussions with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other NGOs regarding the collaboration expanded to the broad areas covering from policy decision process to the exchange of human resources.
In order to make the achievements of recommendations incorporated to the actual policy, it is necessary to work on the policy makers such as Diet members along with gaining understanding of the people. Together with other organizations, we held a study session with the Diet members for the first time in 2013 to convey NGO?s opinions to Diet members.
As to the overseas networking, we attended the meetings such as CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) to reinforce the network with NGOs in north-east Asia. Meanwhile, we strengthened the collaboration with regional network NGOs by hosting seminars related to post-MDGs and supporting their participation in international conferences and contributed to set up new networks related to disaster prevention and Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets for domestic networking.
Organization have an annual report? (YES/NO) (should contain financial statements and a list of financial sources and contributions, including governmental contributions)?
YES -
JANICFinancialReportFY2014.pdf
List of members of the governing body of your organization, and their countries of nationality
All of them are Japanese.
Michiyo Adachi, IVY
Miyako Hamasaka, JEN (Japan Emergency NGO)
Tomoko Hoshino, Environmental Partnership Council
Hitoshi Ichikawa, Shanti Volunteer Association
Masaki Inaba, Ugoku/Ugokasu (GCAP Japan)
Machiko Kaida, C-Rights(Japan International Center for the Rights of the Child)
Nobuhiko Katayama, World Vision Japan
Daichi Konuma, Cross Fields
Toyoaki Komatsu, Shapla Neer - Citizens' Committee in Japan for Overseas Support
Ruiko Monda, AIDS Orphan Support NGO PLAS
Eno Nakamura, Development Education Association and Resource Center/DEAR
Masaaki Ohashi, University of Sacred Heart
Eiichi Sadamatsu, Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation
Masao Seki, Sompo Japan Insurance INC
Mari Suzuki, Asia Community Center 21
Yoshifumi Tajiri, Japan NPO Center
Hiroshi Taniyama, Japan International Volunteer Center(JVC)
Kazuo Tsurumi, Plan Japan
Kiyotaka Watanabe, Hunger Free World
Keita Yamamoto, NPO management labo
Copy of the constitution and/or by-laws of the organization (WORD or PDF only), or a weblink to it
TheArticleOfIncorporation_English.pdf
